Yep, so different, because obviously before Europeans arrived, no American culture ever destroyed another American culture... well, except for all the times that did happen.
You are putting words into my mouth, please don't.
Obviously there were wars and conflicts between indigenous people. Obviously some of those resulted in the destruction of a tribe, culture, or people.
But that's nothing like the genocide brought by colonizers. Scholarly estimates put pre-1492 populations in the US at about 5 million. At it's lowest point, around 1900, fewer than 250,000 indigenous people lived in the US. Across the entire continental United States, 95% of indigenous people were killed, amounting to millions of deaths.
Whatever the scale of ante colonial conflict, it just isn't comparable to the genocide that colonizers brought, and to argue that it was somehow comparable is tasteless at the very least.
250k would be the number of people living on reservations or similar. Incredibly disingenuous to not include all the people and their descendants that integrated into the dominant society.
No, 250k is the total number of people who claimed indigenous heritage in the US. Not just those living on the reservations.
Yes, there were some who probably stopped claiming indigenous heritage, but unless you have a source, the most accurate scholarly number we have for the total number of indigenous people in the US is between 230k and 250k in the years between 1900 and 1910.
